Harmohan hits out at Chandigarh civic body for taking over garbage collection duty

Senior BJP leader Harmohan Dhawan Thursday hit out at the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, saying the civic body had "acted in haste" and was "ill-prepared" when taking over waste collection duties from private players in the city.

In a letter addressed to Punjab governor and Chandigarh's Administrator V P Singh Badnore, the former union minister said, "Fifteen days ago, the municipal corporation in haste and without preparation decided to take over the responsibility of door-to-door garbage collection. Following this decision, about 3,000 door-to-door garbage collectors have gone on an indefinite strike. Heaps of garbage are lying on the side of roads and in greenbelts. There is a stink all around. The corporation has miserably failed to lift garbage from the various sectors in Chandigarh."
He recalled that about 16 months ago on June 5, 2017, Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher "distributed waste paper baskets without lids as garbage bins under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. No one used these bins which was a total waste."
Dhawan alleged that the municipal corporation has failed on all fronts and "even the high court has many a times reprimanded the officials for their negligence to control the menace of stray dogs, parking, cleaning of public toilets, etc."